Nah, that goes to Killua riding horses like a boss.Originally Posted by DarthEnderX
Nah, that goes to Killua riding horses like a boss.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
I liked Killua's clothing and attitude too.
My guess is that Chimera ants are showing human traits in everything from strong personalities, to clothing and the ability to fight/kill their own kind. Some of them also begin to act for their own interest, and for the moment it's the fun of hunting and killing and do not care about their mission that is to feed the Queen.
I wonder if fighting among themselves would really be detrimental in the long run provided they do not annihilate themselves.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Yeah, I hope she won't die. She's too cute to die in the hands of some ant monster.
The suit might have come from some drug trafficker or a smuggler. It's not like the border control and official propaganda would be the whole truth in a country that big. Goods would be certain to be smuggled in and people certain to enter unofficially. The no technology stance would also make it next to impossible to really control contraband and illegal entry. Even if a citizen saw something suspicious, what would they do? They can't make a phone call with no phones, and with the lack of modern technology they need to toil from morning till evening to eke out a living, so they can't afford to make a timely trip to report to anybody. So, any smugglers would have a free reign as long as they didn't draw too much attention. Not to mention the drug gang is probably sanctioned by the government.
I'm gonna go ahead and call she IS gonna die, along with an healthy portion of this arcs characters. Fuck, i wouldn't be surprised if Killua got offed as well.
I'm 50-50 divided thinking she will or won't die. But Killua dying... Haha. The manga would have lost too many fans to justify an anime remake if that had happened.
Eh, I'm sure she'll be fine. Pokkle seems like a fairly competent Nen user now. He'll keep her alive at least long enough for them to meet up with Gon.
Now those other two guys on his team that don't even have names? Yeah, they're doomed.
What it does is it leave the possibility open for Gon to befriend some of them and have them make Heel Face Turns.
They're basically just beastfolk already, so it wouldn't surprise me of Gon could convince a couple that killing people is wrong.
That's not really an issue since we know the "no technology" thing is just propaganda, and the people actually running the country have no problem with guns or anything else.
Last edited by DarthEnderX; Sun, 05-12-2013 at 11:11 AM.
Episode felt slow to me. Since the new arc started, madhouse slowed down the pacing. The latest episodes only covered like 1 chapter each.
Those arrows seem fairly weak. True that we don't know how strong the ants with human genes are, but they'll certainly be stronger than the ants Pokkle seemed to have problems with in this episode. I mean, they had to run from them.
I was hoping she could control them to a degree after she showed us her powers last episode, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Given that his Nen ability is called Rainbow, and the attack he used was called Red Arrow, I'm willing to bet he's got a total of 7 different colored Arrow attacks. Some are probably stronger than the one he used.
I was thinking the same thing. That if she can control the bees, she could control the ants a bit.
And it's possible she still can, and she just hasn't bothered to try it yet.
I imagine it wouldn't be very easy. As I had hoped before, we have already seen the more intelligent ants are starting to do as they please. Even these three stooges, quite insectoid still, already appeared unsatisfied and ready to switch to another squad. So, it seems imminent the hierarchy and society in general inside this ant colony can't be anymore based on everybody mindlessly serving the queen's needs. However, this also means any outsider shouldn't have much more luck controlling them than controlling any random human organization would take - with the exception these guys consider humans a food source and you don't usually obey your next dinner.
Makes sense.
Episode is out.
Chimera ants were engineered to be world-enders huh? Well that explains everything.
Ponzu also got killed by the most unlikable of the intelligent ants and applied a bad taste to the act of hunting in the process.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Ugh...what a depressing episode.
Now they're going to eat Pokkle and gain Nen.
What's this? Did I miss this part?
Gyro's backstory told us that he was out to destroy the world. Appearance of world-destroying ants that were given the chance to do so by growing in a backward, powerless country? Coincidence? I don't think so.
Gyro's men might have been resisting, but the man himself wasn't in a rush to leave
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Wow, the only reason why HXH doesn´t feel quite as depressing as Shingeki no Kyojin is the shounen-esque artstyle and the more placative music. Basically, the lack of subtlety. Other than that, HXH is MORE gruesome than Shingeki. Just wow. Piling up dead bodies, gathering living prey, killing and eating that girl. Just wow.
Fuck, I don´t want Pokkle to die. Come on, the way he evaded the spider´s netstring-attack was the first time he showed somewhat fighting skills. Remember, he became a hunter only because Hisoka was uninterested in fighting him. And now he´ll be eaten. No.But unavoidable, I guess, since for plot-reasons they need a nen-user´s genes.
While I can see how someone could get tired of all these episodes basically just showing humans being eaten, I feel like the producers are doing a damn great job in world building here. Ffs, the last moments when Kaito, Gon and Killua finally started to activate hunter-mode, it felt like "omg, Son Goku and Son Gohan finished their training in god´s palace, now they´ll fight Cell!". Pure awesomeness.
Only weird thing: Why is Gon angry? We´ve had debates about Gon being seemingly without feelings towards murder before. Shouldn´t this be all natural to him?
Also, about the first half of the episode: First, I thought Gyro was the guy that Gon fought in the tower arena. The one with the spinning.
But anyway, since they spent so much time on this unknown guy, also stating that he became king of the NGL, it´s fairly safe to assume that Gyro´s personality will heavily influence the future mentality of the Chimera-King.
Gon was pretty pissed off and challenged Bomber when they obtained Patch of the Shore. I'm pretty sure he gets angry when people are killed, but he just doesn't go around dealing judgement on them.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Oh, no, Ponzu! This show has few enough cute girls as it is, and now one of them got eaten by a gun-loving ant. Gon and Killua better start wiping out the ants by the next episode. They have had their way long enough as it is.
Somebody should also sent in a fleet of bombers dropping canisters of pyrethrin.
hey, we´re getting a bunch of hot furry girls instead. Well, at least scorpion girl and cat girl a hot. Not so much the rest, lol.
They already seem to be using nen at some level, although they dont seem to quite understand the specifics yet. The spider dude could see the arrows and observe the flow of aura around pokkle, something that should only be possible using Gyo. He was also able to grab the arrows bare handed. Their abilities seem much more developed than 'raw potential'. Even one in hundred million talents like Gon and Killua couldn't actually see nen until Wing taught them the basics.
But having Pokkle give them a better understanding of their own powers will indeed make them much stronger.
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